Investigators combing the smoldering ruins of the house of the suspect in Saturday's fatal attack on an Inglewood family have found a body in the debris.

The corpse was found at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, partially buried in rubble.

"We do have a body," said Inglewood police Lt. James Madia, adding that police were taking care not to disturb it and had not made a tentative identification.

The house was rented by Desmond John Moses, who authorities say went on a rampage before dawn Saturday, shooting five members of a family who lived next to him. The father, 30, and his 4-year-old son were fatally wounded. The mother, 28, and two other children, a 7-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, are hospitalized in critical condition. An 8-year-old boy was not injured.

Authorities believe Moses, in his mid 50s, set the house on fire. He was described by neighbors as a recluse, and authorities said his house was jammed with items, complicating the search through the charred wreckage.

Moses lived in the rear of a lot with two other rental houses, one of them the victims', in the 4900 block of West 99th Street. He had not paid his rent in years and the landlord said he had obtained an eviction order Tuesday giving Moses 15 days to move out.

Neighbors awoke at 4 a.m. to gunshots, screams and the sight of flames engulfing the small house Moses had lived in for at least two decades.

Authorities did not release the family’s name, but neighbors identified the couple as Filimon and Gloria Lamas. A woman sobbing at the scene Saturday said the two had been high school sweethearts.

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Photo: Los Angeles County firefighters sift through a burned-out home at the scene of a deadly shooting and fire in Inglewood. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

For those who cannot see the Orionid meteor shower in person, NASA has images streaming on the Internet.

The live feed is being filmed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Officials have warned the shower will be hard to see in urban areas because of light pollution.

The shower, which occurs each October and will be at peak visibility from after midnight Saturday night to dawn Sunday morning, is the result of dust from Halley's Comet hitting Earth's atmosphere as the planet travels through space in its orbit around the sun. At peak time, 20 or so meteors are expected to flash across the sky each hour.

Every year around mid-October, debris from the comet hits the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The debris is moving really fast -- roughly 148,000 mph -- and burns up when it hits the atmosphere, causing the flash of light we see.

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Heavy cloud cover is expected overnight in much of the Los Angeles area, but for people in clear spots: Experts said the most important advice to those hoping to see the meteor shower is to get away from bright city lights.

A London-bound United Airlines flight was searched Saturday evening at Los Angeles International Airport after someone phoned in a bomb threat directed at the aircraft, authorities said.

The threat against United Flight 934 was made from a pay phone about 6 p.m., according to sources familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about it.

The plane, a Boeing 777, was scheduled to depart for Heathrow Airport shortly before 6 p.m., according to United's online flight status report. According to the status report, "airport conditions" are preventing its departure.

The plane was taken to an isolated area at LAX, and a bomb squad used dogs to search the aircraft. [Updated at 9:19 p.m. Oct. 20: Nothing suspicious was found, law enforcement sources said.]

The FBI, Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Airport Police responded to the scene.

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Police have identified the gunman who shot five members of an Inglewood family, killing a father and his 4-year-old son.

The suspect, Desmond John Moses, 55, remains at large, said Inglewood Police Chief Mark Fronterotta. He said a warrant had been issued for Moses’ arrest and asked for the public’s help in apprehending the suspect.

Fronterotta described the suspect as a black man of Haitian descent, approximately 5 feet 6 and 160 pounds. At the time of the shooting, Moses was believed to be wearing a black baseball cap and a white painter’s mask over his face.

"The suspect lived in the rear residence…and was apparently in some type of dispute with the individuals who lived in the front," Fronterotta said.

Moses shot the five family members during the 4 a.m. attack at the property in the 4900 block of West 99th Street, where a 400-square-foot bungalow was also torched, police said.

The owner of the property, who declined to give his name, said the suspected gunman lived on the property and had not paid rent for years. He said the suspect went to court to fight an eviction notice and lost his case Tuesday.

The father, 30, was shot multiple times while protecting his children, police said. He and his 4-year-old son died at a hospital after surgery.

“The father was found draped over two of the children, shielding them,” Fronterotta said.

The children's mother, 28, was shot in both legs but managed to jump over the property’s back fence with her 4-year-old son, Fronterotta said. Paramedics found her collapsed on the street.

Her 7-year-old daughter was shot in the chest. Both mother and daughter were in critical condition at a local hospital. A 6-year-old boy, who suffered a gunshot wound to the pelvis, was in stable condition. An 8-year-old boy escaped injury, Richards said.

The Los Angeles County coroner has not identified the victims. But neighbors identified the parents as Filimon and Gloria Lamas, who lived at the address, according to property records. 

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Photo: Residents and police near the scene of a fire and deadly shooting in Inglewood. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

Experts offered two main tips for watching the Orionid meteor shower:

First, get into as dark an area as possible.

Then lie on your back and look to the skies.

The shower, which occurs each October and will be at peak visibility from after midnight Saturday to dawn Sunday morning, is the result of dust from Halley's Comet hitting Earth's atmosphere as the planet travels through space in its orbit around the sun. At peak time, 20 or so meteors are expected to flash across the sky each hour.

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Heavy cloud cover is expected overnight in much of the Los Angeles area, but for people in clear spots: Experts said the most important advice to those hoping to see the meteor shower is to get away from bright city lights.

"My first advice for seeing it in L.A. would be to get out of L.A.," Bill Cooke, who runs NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, joked during an interview Friday. He said those watching from downtown and other heavily illuminated areas might be able to see some meteors but would miss most of them.

"If you are near bright city lights, you'll only be able to see the brightest meteors," he said.

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged fellow Democrats on Saturday to make sure the country keeps “moving forward in the right direction” by returning President Obama to the White House.

Delivering the keynote speech at the traditional Jefferson Jackson fundraising dinner in Des Moines, Villaraigosa told attendees that a win by Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, would turn back the clock on numerous successes achieved during Obama’s years in office.

The Republican duo would take the country down “a path of less fairness … less security,” Villaraigosa said. They “believe in divide and conquer. They believe there are only makers and takers.”

Police have called off the evacuation of an Inglewood neighborhood where five members of a family were shot Saturday morning by a masked gunman who remains at large.

Police ended the evacuation about 4 p.m. and shut down an emergency Red Cross shelter that was set up for residents.

The gunman shot five people, two of them fatally, during the 4 a.m. attack at a property in the 4900 block of West 99th Street, where a 400-square-foot bungalow was also torched, police said.

The owner of the property, who declined to give his name, said the suspected gunman lived on the property and had not paid rent for years. He said the suspect went to court to fight an eviction notice and lost his case Tuesday.

Firefighters were hauling out piles of debris and remnants of the collapsed roof from the charred house, searching for any sign of the suspect’s body. L.A. County Fire Capt. Tom Richards said the suspect was a “pack rat” and that fire officials had called in a ladder truck to help move and lift out the debris.

“That house was filled to the brim with stuff,” Richards said.

Inglewood Police Chief Mark Fronterotta described the suspect as a 55-year-old black man, 5 feet 6, 160 pounds, wearing a black baseball cap with possibly a white painter’s mask over his face. He had known the family at least eight years, according to Richards.

The father, 30, was shot multiple times while protecting his children, police said. He and his 4-year-old son died at a hospital after surgery.

“The father was found draped over two of the children, shielding them,” Fronterotta said.

The children's mother, 28, was shot in both legs but managed to jump over the property’s back fence with her 4-year-old son, Fronterotta said. Paramedics found her collapsed on the street.

Her 7-year-old daughter was shot in the chest. Both mother and daughter were in critical condition at a local hospital. A 6-year-old boy, who suffered a gunshot wound to the pelvis, was in stable condition. An 8-year-old boy escaped injury, Richards said.

Fanny Paiz, 43, who lives across the street from the crime scene, said she was awakened by the sound of gunfire.

“I heard at least five gunshots," Paiz said. “When I opened my window and looked out, I saw a man running to the back house across the street. It was burning.

“I heard a man yelling.… Then I saw a lady run out into the street with a child in her arms. She was bleeding. She was standing in the middle of the street with the child, whose face was covered in blood. She fell down, screaming, ‘He’s shooting me. He’s shooting me.’”

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Photo: Los Angeles County firefighters sift through the debris of a burned home on West 99th Street, the scene of a deadly shooting in Inglewood on Saturday. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

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